Ivermectin Won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Parasites, Not COVID

 During the first week of September, social media users shared the claim in an image across Facebook and Twitter. “If you just got finessed into calling the medicine that won the 2015 Nobel Prize for its role in treating human disease ‘horse de-wormer', then you need to sit the next couple of plays out,” the text on the image reads. It’s unclear who first posted the image.